Nice to hear he's got another project coming up at Disney. Seems like he isn't totally disheartened by what's happened at the Company.

Still would be nice if Disney would do another 2D feature... I'm sick of the all-CGI, ONLY-CGI mentality that's pervading Hollywood now. There's a certain visual blandess pervading the CGI features that really wasn't there when 2D features were being made.

When I was able to get back to him on Thursday he wouldn't say what mini-ME had told him and I didn't want to pry. I talked with him again on the phone yesterday and I could tell he is still very disgruntled about the closing of the Sydney studio and the overall dormancy of 2D animation at the moment.

I loved the Rhapsody in Blue segment in Fantasia 2000, and the Flamingo one was cute too. He did a great job on those, as well as Pocahontas and the Genie.

"It is written among the limitless constellations of the celestial heavens, and in the depths of the emerald seas....the world which we see is an outward and visible dream of an inward and invisible reality."

I also thought that was a cool picture he drew of you with Genie last time!

"It is written among the limitless constellations of the celestial heavens, and in the depths of the emerald seas....the world which we see is an outward and visible dream of an inward and invisible reality."